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The Gold Standard Act was an act placed to fix the standard of value. To where gold was the only thing to determine how much paper money was given. This Act was signed and passed by President William McKinley.
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He was scheduled to have a meet and greet at the Temple of Music theater. Many knew or had the feeling an assassination was near. The President's personal secretary even tried canceling the event due to the assumption. But McKinley insisted on staying on schedule.
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Theodore Roosevelt became president after the assassination of past President William McKinley. He was McKinley's vice president therefore he would take over when McKinley could not.
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The canal was built in 1881 but wasn't owned by the US until 1904. The length of the canal is 51 miles long. After being owned by the US the canal was opened up in 1914 for ships to travel through with commercial goods.
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A Conflict sparked over border issues between the Empire of Japan and Russia, It would establish japan as a world power with the underdog victory against the Russian Empire who lost the majority of the Eastern Fleet.
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Roosevelt Corollary stated that not only the Western states weren't able to be colonized but that the US had a job to keep them preserved and protect the life of the country.
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This was a novel written by Upton Sinclair about immigrants coming to america to live what is called the American dream. To better themselves and family.
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This was created in 1906 but wasn't effective until 1907, because of misbranded and alternated foods and drugs. To keep people from getting sick and poisoned by unchecked objects.
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Between candidates Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft and former president and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt. Wilson came out on top with the most popular vote.
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The amendment that allows congress to levy tax on income from any source without dividing it among the states.
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This provided direct election of US senators by state voters. But this amendment shouldn't affect the election or term of any senator that is to be chosen.
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Wilson defended racial segregation in his administration for the best interest for black workers. To give them the chance to work as whites do. Signs were removed later after the backlash and remarks made from protests.
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The war to end all wars, what started between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the nation of Serbia. Spiraled into a global conflict from the fields of France, to the dunes of Iraq. This was a war where the foolish claimed it would be over by Christmas. This was the last war of great empires, as at the end of it all this would lead to the collapse of the Ottoman, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German Empires.
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The KKK was revived due to the rise of immigrants into American cities but now instead of just targeting African Americans it was all of them that weren't the traditional white people.
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A German u-boat hit the Lusitania causing it to sink. The ship sank in 18 minutes with it being hit. Killing 1,198 and 761 survivors.
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Peasants and the working class people protested and revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas ll. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and revolutionaries names the Bolsheviks. Which created what is known as the country of the Soviet Union.
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Germany had sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles that made American enter the war.
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Germany surrendered and all nations agreed to stop the fighting to the terms of peace. Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany all the Allied Nations and formally ended the War.
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A treaty that put an end to WW1. This put Germany in a huge down fall. It was stripped of its overseas colonies, its military capabilities were restricted,and it was required to pay war reparations to other Allied countries.
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This declared that all transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors was illegal, though it did not outlaw the actual consumption of alcohol.
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The Red Scare was a wide spread scare of potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state.
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This amendment gave women the right to vote.